Chapter 462: Successful Formation Change (Part 2)

The Lakers will play a total of 15 games in March, which is the last full month of the regular season for the Lakers. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

March is the most competitive time every year, because it is related to the final standings of the record, and for some teams who want to play in the playoffs, they tend to show the most tenacious attitude and fighting spirit, and some teams who want a good ranking will also play extremely hard, so this also leads to the fierce competition in March.

In fact, for the Lakers, they are definitely locked in the first place in the league. Originally, in the month or so before the playoffs, the Lakers should have played the easiest time. However, because of the requirements of the management and the owner, the Lakers still need to go all out to finish the next games seriously.

Originally, Chu Xuan's plan was to use battle to nourish the game, so that the players could easily play in the playoffs. But judging by the games since the All-Star break, he wouldn't have done that without the demands of management and owners, because the Lakers obviously need to do more.

In their first game in March, the Lakers' opponent was the Dallas Mavericks.

The Mavericks' record this year is still very bad, with only 16 wins so far, ranking first in the league. Such a situation is something that many people did not expect. It's March, and the Mavericks have no hope of making it back to the playoffs. Therefore, Cuban has already said that this year the Mavericks are going to compete for the top pick.

Since they are competing for the championship, the rest of the schedule is naturally focused on training newcomers. Speaking of rookies, we have to mention the rookies that the Mavericks got in the '15 draft, No. 5 pick De Angel Russell and No. 7 pick Moody. At that time, the Mavericks selected two guards at the same time, and Cuban's optimistic plan was to build the Mavericks' future dual point guards, after all, Russell and Moodier both reached 196cm tall, which is more advantageous. If the two-guard team is successful, then the Mavericks of the future will definitely want to be strong.

As the Mavericks' main guard, Moodier was able to play 12.1 points, 4.7 rebounds, 5.8 assists and 1.2 steals in his rookie season, shooting 45.5% from the field. This excellent performance makes him the best defender in the rookie. However, Moodier also has an obvious flaw, that is, the three-point shooting ability is too poor, only 29% of the shots. But, in general, Moodier has established himself in the Mavericks, and he represents the future of the Mavericks.

As two of the best point guards in the draft, Russell's fate was the opposite. From the beginning of the same as Moodier, but later the inefficiency was slowly abandoned. Now that the season is almost over, Russell is only averaging 2.4 points and 1.7 assists per game, which is completely a report card for a No. 5 rookie. Now the outside world is unanimously not optimistic about Russell, and there have been rumors that the Mavericks are interested in trading Russell. Clearly, Cuban's two-guard fantasy is about to come to naught.

However, if the Mavericks can get a good seedling in this year's draft, then its rebuilding path will still be quite successful. Because the Mavericks' recruitment was quite successful last summer, Vucevic, as the Mavericks' core center, averaged 15.6 points, 11.2 rebounds and 1.3 blocks per game, which was extremely efficient. And he is only 25 years old, and he can become one of the future leaders of the Mavericks. Then there's small forward Jack Crowder and guard Lando, both of whom are averaging 15 points per game and have great potential. Finally, there is the veteran Nowitzki, who is still in good shape, averaging 15.4 points and 5.8 rebounds per game this season, and he is still a threat on the offensive end. It is worth mentioning that Nowitzki will score more than 28,000 points by the end of the season, which means that the 37-year-old has every hope of hitting 30,000 points.

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The positive number is the first against the bottom one, and the game is naturally without suspense.

Everyone found out that the Lakers made a change of formation, Chu Xuan moved Whiteside to the bench, and then started Towns, who has three-point ability, in pursuit of offensive efficiency. Moreover, the Lakers bench already has a bunch of good scorers, and bringing Whiteside to the bench can completely increase defense and rebounding protection, thus making the bench more powerful.

The Lakers' change of formation had a fantastic effect, 133:77, and the Lakers beat the Mavericks by 56 points.

After this game, the outside world became strong again, and everyone was discussing what the impact of this change would be on the Lakers.

Some people feel that the Lakers have found a way to continue to maintain their dominance, and this game Lakers 7 scored double-doubles, 3 of which scored 20+ is the best proof of this, and the strong overall strength makes the Lakers even more unbeatable.

For some, they feel that the Lakers still haven't changed much, because one game doesn't say much.

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However, just two days later, the Lakers played another strong performance, and the Lakers defeated the young Suns who were in the process of rising 131-120. Knoll scored a double-double of 20 points and 20 rebounds in this game, becoming the biggest contributor to the team's victory.

As a rookie, Towns contributed 17 points, 5 rebounds and 3 assists in this game, while Stanley Johnson scored 10 points, 8 rebounds and 5 assists, although the performance was comprehensive, but the scoring efficiency was only 3 of 13.

Speaking of the 15th rookies, Downs, Stanley and Moodier are undoubtedly the best trio of rookies that have played so far. It stands to reason that the best rookie should be born from the three of them, but because of the existence of Embiid, they can only covet this award.

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After beating the Suns, the Lakers welcomed a heavyweight opponent in March, the Golden State Warriors.

The Warriors currently have a 39-22 record, and after a bad start, the Big Three are now pretty good. So today's game still attracted a lot of attention.

After four quarters, the Lakers lost 132-141 to the rampaging Warriors.

Although the Lakers lost this game, no one said that the Lakers could not do it, and there was no question. Because the Warriors played too against the sky in this game, a group of outside players went on a rampage, throwing a total of 27 three-pointers in history. That is, relying on the three-pointers alone, the Warriors scored 81 points. In such a situation, how can the Lakers win?

And that's not even counting the fact that Thompson made 31 of 10 shots in the third quarter and scored a career-high 46 points. Durant and Curry scored 31 and 27 points, respectively. If the Big Three play like this, the Lakers are not wronged when they lose.

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After the loss to the Warriors, the Lakers packed up and returned to Los Angeles to face the Orlando Magic.

This is the 1,000th regular season game of Gasol's career, and Chu Xuan specially arranged for him to start as a sign of respect for him. In this game, under the full team's vigorous feeding, Gasol scored 25 points and 15 boards, both of which set a new high in a single season. As a good partner, Bryant played a triple-double of 16 points, 10 rebounds and 11 assists.

The Lakers win. (To be continued.) )